POPE FRANCIS URGES: “LET US ENTRUST THE NEW YEAR TO MARY”~ELEVATES MARY ABOVE JESUS IN HERESY

POPE FRANCIS URGES: 
“LET US ENTRUST THE NEW YEAR TO MARY” 
BY HEATHER CLARK
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 





 
  ROME — The leader of Roman Catholicism, Jorge 
Bergoglio, also known as “Pope Francis,” observed the feast of 
“the Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God” on New Year’s Day, urging 
followers to “entrust the new year to Mary.”

“Let us entrust the new year to Mary, Mother of God, so that peace and mercy may grow throughout the world,” he Tweeted on Sunday, generating over 33,000 likes and 11,000 shares.

The feast “coincides with the octave-day of Christmas” on
the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar, and was initially the feast of
the Circumcision of Christ until being replaced in 1974 by Pope John VI.
The “mother of God” concept, however, can be traced back as early as
the Council of Ephesus in 431.

“This celebration, assigned to January 1 in conformity with the
ancient liturgy of the city of Rome, is meant to commemorate the part
played by Mary in this mystery of salvation,” John XI wrote. “It is
meant also to exalt the singular dignity which this mystery brings to
the ‘holy mother … through whom we were found worthy … to receive the
Author of life.’”

“It is likewise a fitting occasion for renewed adoration of the
newborn Prince of Peace, for listening once more to the glad tidings of
the angels, and for imploring from God, through the Queen of Peace, the
supreme gift of peace,” he said. The day is also known as the “World Day
of Peace” for this reason.

In addition to Tweeting in observance of the day on Sunday, Bergoglio also delivered a homily before the masses, outlining why he believes it is important to begin a new year in such a manner.

“To celebrate Mary as mother of God and our mother at the beginning
of the new year means recalling a certainty that will accompany our
days: we are a people with a mother; we are not orphans,” he said. “To
begin the year by recalling God’s goodness in the maternal face of Mary,
in the maternal face of the Church, in the faces of our own mothers,
protects us from the corrosive disease of being ‘spiritual orphans.’”

Bergoglio asserted that Jesus gave Mary to the Church when he died
upon the cross, and the Church should therefore invite her into their
homes and communities, and “meet her maternal gaze.”

“Together let us all confess this truth,” he instructed, as all stood
to their feet. “I invite you to acclaim it three times, standing, like
the faithful of Ephesus: Holy Mother of God, Holy Mother of God, Holy
Mother of God.”

Bergoglio has made similar declarations throughout his tenure, urging others each Jan. 1 to entrust the year to Mary.

GendronBut
Mike Gendron of Proclaiming the Gospel Ministries in Plano, Texas, told
Christian News Network that such practices are unbiblical and elevate
Mary to a position not called for in the Word of God. Gendron is a
former Roman Catholic of over 30 years.

“Pope Francis has elevated the ungodly traditions of Mary above
Scripture. In doing so, he is doing the same thing the scribes and
Pharisees did when they were rebuked by the Lord Jesus. Jesus told them
that they were nullifying the Word of God and thus worshipping God in
vain (Mark 7:7-13),” he said.

Gendron noted that the feast of “Mary, the Mother of God” is one among several on the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar.

“The four dogmas of Mary’s perpetual virginity, her motherhood of
God, her immaculate conception and her bodily assumption into heaven,
form the basis of Mariology,” he outlined. “The development of Mariology
is ongoing and continues to be shaped by the writings of Catholic
mystics, papal statements and apparitions of Mary. Catholics are
encouraged to venerate Mary and entrust their lives to her as their
advocate and mediatrix of all graces.”

“Since veneration is a form of worship, Catholics who venerate Mary
are committing the most serious sin of idolatry. Just as the serpent
deceived Eve by his cunning, Catholics are being led astray from a
sincere and pure devotion to Christ (2 Cor. 11:3),” Gendron continued.
“Catholics will continue to be led astray into idolatry until they
submit to the Word of God as their supreme authority in all matters of
faith. “

2016: THE YEAR WALMART WENT 100% “GAY”~MANY OTHER U.S. COMPANIES HAVE EARNED 100% GAY APPROVAL STATUS TOO

2016: THE YEAR WALMART WENT 100% “GAY”~MANY OTHER U.S. COMPANIES HAVE EARNED 100% GAY APPROVAL STATUS TOO
BY PETER LA BARBERA
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Walmart funds leftist homosexual
groups and perverse LGBTQueer “pride” parades, markets “gay” products
like “Heather Has Two Mommies”

Walmart Sells Homosexual Kiddie Book

Walmart Now Markets Homosexuality to Kids:
Walmart’s online store sells the new edition of “Heather Has Two
Mommies,” a “children’s” picture book that promotes the normalcy of
lesbian parenting. Above is a screen shot of Walmart.com. The retail giant now scores a “100 percent” on Human Rights Campaign’s rigged “Corporate Equality Index”–which
punishes corporations for giving to pro-family organizations, yet
rewards them for funding LGBTQ activist groups. To receive a
“100-percent” score, corporations must be committed to funding
grotesque, body-disfiguring transsexual “sex-reassignment surgeries” as
part of their company’s “health” insurance plan for employees. Take Action: contact Walmart HERE or call 800-925-6278). Click to enlarge.

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“Interestingly,
unlike many other corporations adopting pro-homosexual policies,
Walmart plays both sides of the social-issues “culture war.” It does
this by cultivating good relations with both homosexual activists like
[Human Rights Campaign] and Christian conservative organizations like
American Family Association (AFA).”

Folks, below is a piece I wrote earlier this month for LifeSiteNews, an excellent pro-family and pro-life website (subscribe to their e-list HERE). Walmart’s capitulation to the demands of the leftist, anti-Christian–and very pro-Democrat–Human Wrongs Rights Campaign (HRC) is the latest sign of how strategically important major corporations have become in driving the “gay-transgender” revolution.

If Walmart can go “all gay,”
any corporation can, and sadly the Bentonville, Arkansas-based retail
giant’s moral capitulation shows how complete and entrenched America’s
godless homosexual revolution has become. Nevertheless, liberal (pro-) LGBTQ “snowflakes” in post-Trump distress everywhere are acting as if the USA is on the verge of becoming like Saudi Arabia–despite Trump being the most PRO-homosexual Republican presidential nominee ever!

nyc_pride_2015_walmart_rainbow_flag_resized_with_credit

Walmart’s new, immoral “values”:
Walmart fielded a contingent in New York City’s 2015
homosexual-transgender-sadomasochism (“gay”) Pride parade, despite its
sexually perverse nature. See this AFTAH photo-story and other photos below.

As it has in recent years, Walmart again sponsored New York City’s homosexual-transgender-sadomasochism (LGBTQueer) “pride” parade in 2016 (see page 35 of the “NYC Pride Guide”; also, see AFTAH’s photo-story exposé on the 2015 NYC “pride” parade sponsored by Walmart). And Walmart was among the corporate sponsors at a far-left-biased “International LGBT Leaders” conference (attended by this writer) in Washington, D.C., earlier this month, put on by the Gay and Lesbian Victory Institute.

Despite its pro-disordered-sex-and-gender “philanthropy,” Walmart received a “Nice” (not “Naughty”) rating from our friends at American Family Association for celebrating Christmas, and was praised as a “pro-religious liberty” company by AFA in 2015. That confused some AFA followers who noted Walmart’s newfound support of homosexual “marriage” post-Obergefell. Moreover, Walmart reportedly fought against a religious-freedom-protection bill in its home state of Arkansas (and in other states).

This scantily-dressed perv marched at the 2015 New York City homosexual-transgender-sadomasochism "gay" Pride parade, at which many young children were in attendance.

Walmart’s values?
This nearly naked pervert marched in the 2015 New York City
homosexual-transgender-sadomasochism (“gay”) Pride parade, at which many
young children were in attendance. Click to enlarge photos.

Ironically, under HRC’s horribly skewed Corporate Equality Index (CEI), if Walmart were to give a direct grant to AFA (or Americans For Truth),
it would LOSE 25 points and fall off the CEI’s “100-percent” list (see
story below). Having the leftist HRC judge corporations on homosexual
and “gender” issues is about as fair as having the far-left, pro-LGBTQ Southern Poverty Law Center
serve as an arbiter of “hate.” Utterly absurd, and yet the corrupt
media honor both rankings and report them as objective “news.”

I’ll say this: you have to hand it to Walmart’s executives: cynically
playing both sides of the LGBTQ-vs.-the-natural-family “culture war”
and seemingly getting away with it. Or will they? I suppose that’s up to
pro-family Americans, who correctly understand that the
homosexual/transgender social-legal revolution is incompatible with the First Amendment and freedom of conscience. — Peter LaBarbera, AFTAH; @Peter LaBarbera

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TAKE ACTION: Call
Walmart’s Arkansas headquarters at 479-273-4000 and choose ext. 3, then
ask for the office of CEO Doug McMillon. Or call 1-800-WALMART
(925-6278). Write Walmart online HERE (click
the “Community and Giving” option). When I called the first number I
was routed to Customer Relations. Send CEO McMillon a fax directly at
479-204-0798.

Related articles:

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LifeSiteNews reports:

Walmart earns 100% gay approval rating on homosexual group’s corporate scorecard

By Peter LaBarbera

Walmart and S&M "Pride": a sadomasochism-celebrating float at the 2015 NYC "Pride" parade. Not the black-and-blue "leather pride" flags. See full AFTAH photo-story on the Walmart-sponsored parade HERE.

Walmart and S&M “Pride”:
a sadomasochism-celebrating float at the 2015 NYC “Pride” parade. Note
the black-and-blue “leather pride” flags flying alongside the more
familiar rainbow-imitating “gay pride” flags. See full AFTAH photo-story
on the Walmart-sponsored parade HERE. Click to enlarge.

December 6, 2016 (LifeSiteNews)
— For the first time ever, Walmart has scored a “perfect” 100 percent
ranking on a leading homosexual lobby group’s “corporate scorecard,”
meaning that to keep its score the retail giant will now cover
transsexual employees’ “sex reassignment surgeries” as part of its
healthcare coverage.

The decidedly anti-social-conservative “Corporate Equality Index”
(CEI) is produced by Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the world’s largest
homosexual-bisexual-transgender lobby organization. Companies are ranked
by whether or not they adopt pro-LGBTQ workplace and giving policies.
From year to year, HRC usually makes the criteria more stringent, thus
driving corporations to adopt ever-more radical pro-LGBTQ internal
policies and commitments to maintain their “perfect” scores.

Walmart’s new 100 percent score (up from 90 percent on last year’s
scorecard) marks its steadily growing embrace of LGBTQ advocacy at the
expense of its wholesome, pro-family image. In recent years, the
corporation has begun funding “gay pride” parades, in which lewd behavior is paraded in front of children, and homosexual activist groups like the Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund.

Lose points for backing natural marriage

Moreover, according to HRC’s biased “Index,” corporations are
punished (losing 25 points) for giving to pro-natural marriage groups
and causes while they are rewarded for giving money to LGBTQ causes.
According to “Criterion 5 of the “Index,”

“The Employers will have 25 points deducted from
their score for a large-scale official or public anti-LGBT blemish on
their recent records. No employer received this deduction in the 2017
CEI.”

In recent years, to accrue points toward a 100 percent ranking, major
corporations like Walmart have stepped up their giving of large grants
to LGBTQ organizations and events.

HRC announced on page 6 of its 111-page CEI report:

“199 of the Fortune 500-ranked businesses achieved a 100
percent rating (compared to 151 last year), with 12 of the top 20
Fortune-ranked businesses at this top score. Ninety-two percent of the
Fortune 500 include ‘sexual orientation’ in their nondiscrimination
policies and 82 percent include ‘gender identity.’ For the first time,
half of Fortune 500 companies offer transgender inclusive healthcare
benefits, including surgical procedures.”

A sampling of other 100 percent Fortune 500 corporations is below.

Walmart settles with “gay” legal group

walmart_pride_logoMeanwhile,
Walmart announced that it has settled a class-action lawsuit with
another homosexual lobby group to pay past compensation to its
homosexual employees who had become same-sex “married” between 2011 and
2013 but were denied family health benefits.

The Boston-based LGBTQ legal organization GLAD (GLBTQ Legal Advocates & Defenders) announced in a Dec. 2 release:

“The $7.5 million proposed settlement would pay for
claims by Walmart associates in the United States and Puerto Rico that
they were unable to obtain health insurance coverage for their same-sex
spouses from Walmart from Jan. 1, 2011 to Dec. 31, 2013. …

“In 2014, Walmart voluntarily made the same health insurance benefits
available to same-sex spouses of its associates that it offered to
opposite-sex spouses. As part of the proposed settlement, Walmart
commits to continuing to do so in the future.”

A Walmart executive, Sally Welborn, senior vice president, global benefits, signaled that the settlement is part of the retailer’s pro-LGBTQ ethos (Walmart did not admit guilt as part of the terms):

“We’re happy both sides could come together to reach a
resolution. Respect for the individual, diversity and inclusion are
among the core values that made Walmart into the company that it is
today. We will continue to not distinguish between same and opposite sex
spouses when it comes to the benefits we offer under our health
insurance plan.”

GLAD states that the number of people collecting from the
class-action lawsuit is “expected to include no more than a few thousand
current and former Walmart associates. Walmart employs nearly 1.5
million associates in the U.S. and Puerto Rico.”

Walmart plays both sides

Interestingly, unlike many other corporations adopting pro-homosexual
policies, Walmart plays both sides of the social-issues “culture war.”
It does this by cultivating good relations with both homosexual
activists like HRC and Christian conservative organizations like
American Family Association (AFA).

Last year, Walmart received high praise from one of the most
prominent and respected pro-family leaders in America, Tim Wildmon, son
of Don Wildmon, who founded the Tupelo, Mississippi-based AFA. See this 2015 article,
where AFA president Tim Wildmon gives Walmart a “perfect 100” on its
“Corporate Religious Liberty Index” because of Walmart’s answers
“demonstrating that the corporation respects and values religious
freedoms.”

Other “perfect” pro-LGBTQ corporations

The following corporations are among those that joined Walmart as
Fortune 500 companies scoring 100 percent on HRC-skewed “Corporate
Equality Index” (2017):

Apple

AT&T

Ben and Jerry’s

BB&T Corp.

Best Buy

Boeing

3M

Chevron

Capital One

Comcast

Clorox

Coca-Cola

Colgate-Palmolive

Crate & Barrel

Dell

Eastman Kodak

Ebay

Expedia

Facebook

Fannie Mae

Freddie Mac

Ford

GameStop

Gap

General Mills

GM

GE

Google

Groupon

Hallmark Cards Inc.

Harris

Hartford

Hasbro

Hershey

Home Depot

Hyundai Motor America

Hyatt Hotels

Intel

IKEA

IBM

JC Penney

JetBlue

John Hancock Financial Services

Johnson & Johnson

Kaiser Permanente

Kellogg Co.

Kimberly-Clark Corp

Land O’Lakes

Lexmark

McDonald’s

Macy’s

Merck

MetLife

MGM Resorts

Mattel

MillerCoors

Microsoft

Nationwide

Nestle-Palmolive

Netflix

New York Life

Nike

Office Depot

Owens Corning

PayPal

Pepsico

PetSmart

Procter & Gamble

Prudential

Raytheon

Replacements

Salesforce

Southwest Airlines

Sony Corp. of America

Sony Pictures

Sprint

Starbucks

T-Mobile

T. Rowe Price

Tesla Motors

Time-Warner

Toys-R-Us

Twitter

UPS

Walmart

Walt Disney

Whirlpool

Wyndham Worldwide

VW

Viacom

AMAZON ECHO SHOCK VIDEO: CHILD RECEIVES PORN RELATED SEARCH RESULTS

AMAZON ALEXA GONE WILD
WARNING: NOT FOR CHILDREN

 SEE: http://www.infowars.com/shock-video-child-receives-porn-related-search-results-from-amazon-echo/;

EXCERPT: (THE REST IS TOO PORNOGRAPHIC TO REPEAT HERE)

A child attempting to use an Amazon device to search for his
favorite song was instead fed raunchy porn terms as suggestions, a viral
video shows.

The SFist has the details:

The
boy asks Alexa for a song called “Digger Digger,” which may or may not
exist, and the best she can come up with was this “Comedy Ringtones Vol.
2” from Spotify, which under the artist name has a series of x-rated
keywords

THE ROT INSIDE THE DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY

THE ROT INSIDE THE DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY
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By: Devvy Kidd


January 2, 2017
NewsWithViews.com
Like
millions of Americans, I was and am still against the worthless Department
of Fatherland aka Homeland Security. Too much power consolidated in
one place, the bigger the more corruption and rot and that’s just what’s
been happening with DHS over the years.
We
have been invaded and continue to be invaded no different than if it
were foreign troops
. Illegal aliens from all over the world
continue to flood across our southern border while the gutless cowards
in Congress have done virtually nothing for decades.
Instead
of a legitimate president calling up U.S. troops and putting them all
across the four border states, the criminal impostor squatting in the
White House has made sure the border stays porous while Americans continue
to be murdered, raped or robbed by criminal illegals.
The
murder of fewer than 20 Americans at Columbus caused President Woodrow
Wilson
to call out the entire U.S. Army and the entire National
Guard. To put that in perspective, President Wilson put more National
Guardsmen along the US / Mexico border than we have troops of every
type in Iraq today. He then backed them up with the entire U.S. Army.”
“A
Mexican man accused of raping a 13-year-old girl on a Greyhound bus
that traveled through Kansas had been deported 10 times and voluntarily
removed from the U.S. another nine times since 2003, records obtained
by The Associated Press show.
“Three
U.S. Republican senators — including Kansas’ Jerry Moran and Pat
Roberts — demanded this month that the Department of Homeland
Security provide immigration records for 38-year-old Tomas Martinez-Maldonado,
who is charged with a felony in the alleged Sept. 27 attack aboard a
bus in Geary County. He is being held in the Geary County jail in Junction
City, which is about 120 miles west of Kansas City.”
Really?
Grassley and Roberts were both in the Senate when Republicans controlled
both the House, Senate and Bush, Jr., was in the White House. They did
NOTHING to lock down that southern border and now they’ve got their
kickers in a twist because a 13-year old child was raped by yet another
filthy pig illegal alien. Too little too late for that little girl.
Jeh
Johnson, the latest pimp to head DHS is just as rotten and corrupt as
his boss, Barry Soetoro aka Obama.
Thankfully his anti-America backside
will soon be gone. THIS is his legacy along with Obama and the U.S.
Congress: 39,456
Americans were murdered by illegal aliens in 2016
. Illegal aliens
have murdered more than 67,092 people inside the USA since 9/11. 94%
of the same incumbents reelected in November will shortly be sworn back
into office. The same 94% who have allowed this to continue along with
activist judges allowed to remain on the bench.
While
Texas’ governors and our state legislature have allocated more millions
and millions in an effort to stop the invasion at our southern border,
the hordes just keep coming. They come, they disappear into big cities
and continue stealing jobs that belong to Americans, our resources and
clog our courts with tricks designed to keep them illegally in OUR country.
And they kill and rape our fellow country men and women.
Despite
the best efforts of Dr. Edwin Vieira, yours truly and really a small
number of those who get it, efforts to reconstitute the constitutional
militia in our states to plug the holes in border enforcement has gone
no where. Just like Congress, the same gutless cowards keep getting
reelected to the state capitols who do nothing but put more Band Aids
on a patient hemorrhaging to death on the operating table.
The
violence has increased since I wrote the column above. As if that weren’t
bad enough, hundreds of employees of DHS have turned into criminals
selling us out:
“It
was not an isolated case. A review by The New York Times of thousands
of court records and internal agency documents showed that over the
last 10 years almost 200 employees and contract workers of the Department
of Homeland Security have taken nearly $15 million in bribes while being
paid to protect the nation’s borders and enforce immigration laws.
“These
employees have looked the other way as tons of drugs and thousands of
undocumented immigrants were smuggled into the United States, the records
show. They have illegally sold green cards and other immigration documents,
have entered law enforcement databases and given sensitive information
to drug cartels.
“In
one case, the information was used to arrange the attempted murder of
an informant. The Times’s findings most likely under count the
amount of bribes because in many cases court records do not give a tally.
The findings also do not include gifts, trips or money stolen by Homeland
Security employees.”
Every
once in a while the ‘all the news that’s fit to fake’, NY Times actually
does a public service and the column above certainly does that by exposing
the level of corruption inside DHS.
Supposedly,
new safeguards have been put in place: screening for new applicants
seeking a job have to pass a polygraph and get more training along with
much needed more internal affairs investigators. It’s really not that
difficult to spot a rotten apple who takes out a $40,000 boat on the
lake while making $45,000 a year in salary unless they inherited money
from a deceased family member, won the Lotto or come from money.
Going
back to the article above:
“Corrupt
C.B.P. law enforcement personnel pose a national security threat,”
a Department of Homeland Security report released in May concluded.
The report also revealed numerous problems with efforts to root out
corruption among Border Patrol and customs agents. The report said the
“true levels of corruption within C.B.P. are not known. ”
“Convicted
former border and immigration agents give different reasons for taking
bribes, from financial troubles to drug use. But for many, it was simple
greed…
“But
the issue of bribery extends well beyond front-line agents at the border.
Department of Homeland Security employees who enforce immigration and
customs laws and provide citizenship benefits and aviation security
have also been arrested or indicted on and convicted of charges of taking
bribes.
“Last
month, Daniel Espejo Amos, a former immigration service officer at the
United States Citizenship and Immigration Services in Los Angeles, pleaded
guilty to taking $53,000 in bribes from immigration lawyers on behalf
of 60 immigrants who were not eligible to become naturalized citizens
of the United States. Mr. Amos certified that the immigrants met the
requirements for citizenship, even though one person’s English-language
skills were so poor that copies of test answers were given to him so
he could memorize them for a naturalization interview.
“Transportation
security officers and screeners with access to secure areas of airports
that could be used to smuggle weapons and even carry bombs onto planes
have taken hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes as well, records
show.”
The
U.S. Congress spends a massive amount of time on legislation and spending
for unconstitutional cabinets like the Federal Department of Education,
the EPA and dozens and dozens of agencies. Their attention should be
focused on one of the most serious issues for America: Border enforcement
and providing the necessary funds for areas like Inspector General’s
and their staffs to go after the maggots who sell us out by taking bribes
from illegals, drug cartels or corrupt immigration attorneys who care
nothing for our laws or our security.
 Instead
of wasting $66 BILLION BORROWED dollars last year on the unconstitutional
Federal Department of Education, that money would have gone a long way
in fighting the illegals invasion and rooting out corrupt employees
in DHS, including sadly, a small number in the U.S. Border Patrol who
really do a great job despite being hamstrung by Jeh Johnson and the
dirty traitor currently sitting in the White House.
‘Cleaning
the swamp’ is going to require a lot more than people realize if we’re
ever going to reduce the size of the out-of-control U.S. government
and return to a limited form of republican government for all Americans.
That
will only happen if we the people make the commitment to devote our
time and resources aside from work and family obligations and go after
the same incumbents returning next month to Congress and demand the
job done. Trump can’t do it alone.

MILLIE WEAVER’S EPIC TRUMP TWEETS OF THE WEEK #2

MILLIE WEAVER’S EPIC TRUMP TWEETS 
OF THE WEEK #2
 
Published on Dec 31, 2016
Many
people have criticized Donald Trump for using Twitter rather than the
mainstream media, but can you blame him? Several times President Elect
Donald Trump has achieved Thug Life status via his skilled use of
twitters 140 characters. Infowars reporter Millie Weaver will be
highlighting his most epic tweets for the last week of 2016.

“CHRISTIAN” ABORTION DOCTOR SAYS: “I LOVE” KILLING BABIES IN ABORTIONS; “I’M PROUD TO DO SO”

 carolynpayne 
“CHRISTIAN” ABORTION ADVOCATES: 
NANCY PELOSI WITH CAROLYN PAYNE 
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“CHRISTIAN” ABORTION DOCTOR SAYS: 
“I LOVE” KILLING BABIES IN ABORTIONS; 
“I’M PROUD TO DO SO” 
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 Carolyn Payne grew up in a good Christian home with loving parents and opportunities to make the most of her life.

Instead, she decided to become an abortion doctor.

Payne, an Ob/Gyn resident (pictured above), wrote a shockingly bold column for the women’s website XO Jane
about how her faith and upbringing influenced her to abort unborn
babies for a living. Through her experiences, Payne flaunted her career
goal and what she perceived as the importance of training programs for
abortion doctors in the U.S.

“I love providing abortion care to women, and I am proud to do so,”
Payne wrote, adding that she and many of her colleagues are “not afraid,
embarrassed or ashamed to say so.”

Payne explained:

Who wants to be an abortion provider?

I do. And I don’t have a nose-ring or a tattoo. I’m a 5’ blonde from
Ohio and my last boyfriend was a pastor. In fact my Midwest, Christian
upbringing is largely responsible for my belief that providing abortion
services is one of the most meaningful ways I feel I can contribute to
making the world a more fair and equal place for women.

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… I never experienced unplanned pregnancy because I was fortunate
enough to have parents who understood the normalcy of teenage sexuality,
and provided me education and opportunities to prevent undesired
pregnancy and disease. I could have sex, just like a man could, and go
on with my life, with minimal fear of life-changing consequences (i.e.
unwanted pregnancy).

I realize this is a privilege in our society and that is unjust. All
women who desire contraception should have it; it’s necessary for women
to be able to achieve their goals. Not because women are sluts, but
because women are humans, and humans do have sex.

Payne clearly is very proud of her abortion work. In one revolting
admission, she openly admitted that aborting an unborn baby for the
first time made her and other abortion doctors-in-training “feel good” —
though Payne never mentioned unborn babies in her column. She wrote:

To us, abortion training was something we advocated for
in medical school, and actively sought out in our residency training
programs. To us, abortion training was exciting, because it meant we
were developing the skills necessary to provide women with safe
reproductive healthcare. To many of us, the decision to receive training
in abortion wasn’t “agonizing” at all as a recent corresponding piece
in Yahoo! Health
described. Rather, providing our first MVA [manual vacuum aspiration
abortion] was a “feel good procedure,” because we had successfully
performed an intervention that changed a woman’s life for the better!

No where did Payne mention what happens to the unborn child in an MVA abortion
– how the unborn baby’s body is crushed and sliced and then suctioned
out of the mother’s womb. Then the baby’s body parts are typically put
into a bowl to make sure they are all there. This gruesome killing
procedure was “exciting” to Payne.

But her shocking admissions did not end there. Payne argued
that abortion makes life more “fair” for women who did not have the
education or resources to prevent their pregnancies or simply thought a
baby would get in the way of their education or career. She also claimed
that abortions are “fair” to children:

And most importantly, I think it is fair to children,
that they are born into a world where they are wanted, and loved, and
cared for, and have the resources they need to thrive. I think abortion
is a social good and a tremendous way in which physicians can contribute
to a more socially just world.

Payne concluded with thoughts about possibly becoming pregnant in the
future. Abortion is already in her mind if her “pregnancy” does not
turn out as expected (no mention of her unborn child)– “I hope that my
doctor will put my life and health first.”

That means I hope my doctor is trained to terminate
pregnancies. I hope they get that training in medical school, residency,
fellowship, and beyond. I also hope they feel good about it, because it
is a good thing. Saving women’s lives, and enabling women to have both
the public and private life she desires is a very good thing.

Payne’s musings are a disquieting look at how abortion doctors
justify their horrific treatment – by completely ignoring the humanity
of the unborn child.
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 http://www.chronicle.com/article/As-States-Try-to-Curb/139831/

SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION ENDORSES NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION-CHARISMATIC FALSE TEACHING

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SOUTHERN BAPTIST CONVENTION ENDORSES NEW APOSTOLIC REFORMATION-CHARISMATIC 
FALSE TEACHING 
BY BUD AHLHEIM
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 “In such a time of
kaleidoscopic changes, is there anything that remains unchanged?  When
so many things have proved to be untrustworthy, is there anything we can
trust?
  “One point, at least, is
clear – we cannot trust the Church.  The visible Church, the Church as
it now exists upon this earth, has fallen too often into error and sin.”
  J. Gresham Machen

If the maxim “the devil is in the details” can be granted
interpretative equivalency, then “apostasy is in the details” might
serve to accurately assess much of the Southern Baptist Convention. To
be sure, much of the apostasy embarked upon by the SBC is not merely in
the details. It can be seen strewn across the convention, from the
stages of every center of seeker-sensitive hoopla wrongly called
“churches” to the upper echelon of the shakers and movers of
denominational influence.

Apostasy, simply put, is the abandonment of a previous loyalty.  Note
that it doesn’t require a full-blown renunciation of previously held
beliefs.  All that is necessary to deem apostasy present is the evidence
of behavior or commentary that defies that previous loyalty.

For Christians, apostasy is turning away from the Word of God in His
Scripture, and its clear teachings, by evident practice and proclamation
of contradictory teaching.  That proclamation, again, doesn’t have to
be an actual renunciation of what God has clearly taught in the Bible
and to which previous allegiance was evident; it can merely be the
subtle relegation of doctrinal standards to a condition of disuse,
replacing them with errant practices that, while most often done for
personal or corporate (i.e., denominational) expediency, remain
thoroughly unbiblical.  This is the SBC today.

While not every SBC cooperating church and pastor fall into the
category of open apostasy, it’s certain that the denominational
powers-that-be are eager to openly engage, employ, and encourage much
that is antithetical to the clear teaching of Scripture.  Sadly, the
Bible-centered, Gospel-proclaiming, doctrinally-sound, faithful churches
that do exist within the convention are the rare exceptions that do not
set the rule in a denomination determined to avoid fidelity to Biblical
truth in pursuit of its own agenda.  From the top down, the SBC seems
more aligned with the apostle’s Words about the malignant godlessness of
the end times … “having a form of godliness, but denying its power” (2 Timothy 3:5)
… than it appears poised to receive Paul’s apostolic words of
commendation … “I thank my God upon every remembrance of you.”  (Philippians 1:3)  Such is the condition of a denomination in downgrade.

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Something like past SBC President Ronnie Floyd’s eager participation
with, as Spurgeon called it in his day, “known and vital” error by joining the NAR-heretical IHOP cult to “pray for America” doesn’t require too much in the way of Biblical discernment. When Scripture says “avoid them,” (Romans 16:17-18) it’s not difficult to interpret the Lord’s meaning.

life11-twOr when the currently embroiled SBC “ethicist in chief,” Russell Moore (see the postscript to this article for an op-ed segue on Moore),
eagerly aligns the convention with the apostasy of Rome in order to
promote a social gospel agenda, not much Berean savvy is needed to
ascertain the problem.  (Neither is much discerning Berean brain power called for to ascertain most any of Moore’s other egregious doctrinal dalliances.)

Or when the gurus of church growth in the SBC will abandon all
confidence in the sufficiency of Scripture and exhibit zero trust in
Christ’s words that “I will build my church,” (Matthew 16:18) instead opting for Scripturally illicit, worldly methodologies to be relevant to the culture (which means proclaiming “another Gospel,” as the apostle calls it Galatians 1:8) in order to grow the church, it’s clear that abandonment of Scriptural standards has occurred. (When
the top churches in the SBC are the likes of Elevation, or Saddleback,
or New Spring, then, yeah, apostasy is an evident problem.)

So not all apostasy – the abandonment of Scripture and its teachings –
is a covert “devil in the details” within the SBC, but a recent one is.
 It is neatly tucked away in the run-up marketing campaign in
anticipation of the 2017 annual meeting.

The devil in these particular details is nothing less than the full
endorsement of the apostasy seen in the New Apostolic Reformation and
its related, errant charismatic teachings.   While not broadcast as a
formal alignment with the heretical, charismaniacal NAR movement, the
details of this marketing campaign to gin up enthusiasm for the next SBC
meeting make clear its reliance on false teaching drawn directly from
its errant theology.  (For more on the NAR, go HERE)

5b1b2c2d-0414-48e3-a7b8-117618e57bdd-sbc17-pray-artwork-aThe recently announced theme
for the SBC’s 2017 meeting is “Pray! For Such A Time As This.” That
theme may not be as reflective of the denominational panic over the need
to stem the decade-long, massive bloodletting of membership
from the ranks which was seen in the most prior two conventions.   In
2015, the theme was “Great Awakening. Clear Agreement. Visible Union.
Extraordinary Prayer.” In 2016, the official theme dropped the
adjectives and emphasized the American election year, “Awaken America.
Reach The World. Agree. Unite. Pray.”

The panic in the SBC for  “building the church” (i.e., saving the convention from its historically-unparalleled slide)
may be subtle within those themes, but that panic exists. Current
president Steve Gaines, speaking of the new theme, said, “I want to
encourage all of us to prayer for spiritual awakening across the
Southern Baptist Convention.”  “Awakening” is SBC-speak, it seems, for a
reversal of tick-marks denoting the continuing egress of former sitters
of pews from the convention.

A true spiritual awakening is a noble desire, to be sure, but so long
as Scripture in the SBC is used merely as emphatic big screen verses
plucked and flashed to bolster Sunday morning positive thinking lectures
from pulpit-less platforms … so long as sound Biblical doctrine goes
avoided in preaching and teaching … so long as the true faith goes
uncontended for against incessant error and false teaching (much of it being sold for profit by the SBC’s own media and retail outlet Lifeway)
… so long as the Gospel from Scripture is supplanted with a false
“Jesus loves you and has a wonderful plan for your life” version … so
long as the explicit “theology” promoted is increasingly more “American”
and less Biblical … an authentic awakening will not come.

Awakening is a function not only – and perhaps not primarily – of
prayer, but of Truth … Truth apprehended by the diligent preaching and
teaching of the Word and God’s working through it.  If the desire for an
awakening is to awaken people, not to emotional frenzy, but to divine
Truth, the necessary starting point is Scriptural Truth itself.  From
Peter’s post-Pentecost sermon in Acts forward, authentic awakenings have
been bathed in prayer, but they have been borne out of the power of
God’s Word truly preached and soundly taught.  Thus the increasingly
Scripture-void SBC will find continued intercessory pleas for
denominational rescue unable to pass beyond the parapet of Hollywood
lighting and stadium speakers hanging over the pew sitters engaged in
Sunday “worship experiences.”  God has exalted His Name and His Word (Psalm 138:2)
and when that is diminished, slighted, or outright avoided, as much of
the SBC does now, God does not bless, awakenings do not come, sheep are
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The preemptory marketing campaign
– a “call to prayer” – for the upcoming convention has its own theme
…”In All Things Pray. My Family. My Community. My Church. My Country. My
World.” The missing prayer point, “My Denomination,” is absent but
obviously implied.

As should be expected of a well-oiled, highly funded (thanks to your gifts and offerings to the Cooperative Program)
marketing machine, this SBC campaign features all the
accouterments that any respectable marketing blitz ought to have.   It
has its own website … InAllThingsPray.Net.
It has a vast array of resources, including digital books and booklets,
printed manuals, prayer calendars, prayer guides and even recommended
“congregational prayer ideas,” because, with Scripture’s absence being
so widespread in the Convention, churches might not know how to pray,
presumably.

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As if to point to the unimportance of Scripture-informed prayer, the
website for this anticipatory marketing campaign features, in its
digital sweet spot, “A Great Commission Prayer Experience.” This
recommended guide for a sixty-minute time of corporate prayer includes
10 minutes for “Scripture reading,” a segment of time also to be shared
with  “public leadership and worship” elements. That three-pointed focus
will, no doubt, translate into a couple of verses being flashed on the
big screens. No need to open the dust-gathering pew Bibles, we’re
just not going to get that serious. Just watch the big screen.  Besides,
we’re here for an “experience,” not because we want you to actually
“understand” anything.

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SBC REPACKAGING OF NAR TEACHING: A Downloadable PDF For Training Your Church

One of the resources offered by the In All Things Pray website comes in the category titled “Prayer Walking Guides.” Entitled Taking Prayer To The Streets: Prayerwalking Guidebook,
this resource instructs churches on how to implement a prayer-walking
program. It is within this 48 page PDF where the SBC’s covert
endorsement of NAR false teaching may be found.

According to the Acknowledgements preface to the guidebook, “Taking Prayer To The Streets
was written by Dr. Thomas Wright for the North American Mission Board
(NAMB).” This guidebook, then, and the resources it explicitly
recommends, were specifically developed and intentionally targeted for
Southern Baptists.

The guidebook’s “Condensed Leader’s Guide” includes the following
comment, re-emphasizing again the panic over continued numbers-crunching
denominational demise.

“Probably one of the greatest sins among Southern
Baptists is our prayerlessness. It is our greatest neglect, but at the
same time, it is America’s and the world’s greatest need. The reason we
aren’t experiencing a sweeping revival in America is because of the lack
of urgent prayer. The reason our baptisms have been going down in the
Southern Baptist Convention is because we don’t pray fervently.”

As is evident to any Bible-abiding believer (John 8:31)
familiar with the SBC, the problem with the denomination is not
primarily a lack of prayer; the problem is the profound and widespread
disregard of Scripture. The solution to the problems of America and the
world isn’t the ginned up frenzy of Scripture-void prayer; the solution
is the Truth of God’s Word being clearly and consistently proclaimed.
The lack of Scriptural Truth permeating the SBC, though, is echoed by
the very culture it seeks to coddle into its pews with man-centered
preaching, a gospel that is “all about you,” and Sunday after Sunday of
feel-good experiences that entertain goats but starve sheep. Scripture –
God’s Word – is the premise of the faith and Scriptural Truth is the
solution for the SBC, America, and the world.

The prayer-walking guidebook, in offering instruction on how to
implement the maneuver, serves up a number of Scripturally-spurious
suggestions, many drawn from the unbiblical, NAR-charismatic approach to
spiritual warfare.   For example, the guidebook includes the point “pray for the unsaved in your community,” along with the instruction that participants should “Ask God to deliver them [the unsaved] from the spirit of disobedience.” But being “dead in trespasses and sins” as Scripture teaches (Ephesians 2:5)
is not a function of the lost being enslaved to an evil spirit to be
saved as the result of answered, fervent prayer; it is the default
condition of every man as a result of the fall. (Psalm 51:5)
 Only God can make the dead live, and He does that not by answering
believers’ prayers against the demonic, but by believers sharing the
Gospel with the lost and God saving whom He will by that planted seed.
 Skip the hocus-pocus focus on the demonic.  Spiritual warfare is fought
when the Gospel is proclaimed.  It is the power.  (Romans 1:16)  The Word is the weapon.  (Ephesians 6:17)

In justifying the need to pray for the unsaved, the guidebook gives a
number of reasons with a glaringly unbiblical concluding point. “Why
pray for the unsaved? Because they can refuse to go to church. They can
refuse to listen to your witness. They can throw away your tracts. They
can refuse to let you in. They can hang up on you. But they can’t prevent Jesus from knocking on the door of their hearts in response to your prayers
.” (Emphasis added)

From "Taking Prayer To The Streets," pg. 5

From “Taking Prayer To The Streets,” pg. 5

In case you haven’t brushed up on Biblical soteriology lately, Jesus
is not knocking on the door of anyone’s heart. Such a notion is absent
from the pages of Scripture. Jesus doesn’t do that whether or not your
prayers have implored Him to do so. What Scripture teaches is that
salvation belongs to the Lord (Psalm 3:8, Revelation 7:10) and He saves whom He will (Romans 9:14-18, Ephesians 1:11)
– not by pleadingly rapping on the door of the spiritually dead heart,
but by opening the eyes to see, making the ears to hear and breathing
life into dead souls. And what is the mechanism of that divinely executed regeneration? The Gospel is the power of God for salvation. (Romans 1:16)   When it goes unshared, the already damned (John 3:18) remain unaffected by divine Truth.pwgcopy

The primary goal of prayer-walking, though, isn’t evangelism. The
guidebook does emphasize praying for the lost, but not actively
proclaiming the gospel to the lost. In so much of the SBC and the wider
evangelical church, the notion of “sharing the Gospel” has become
wrongly synonymous with “inviting someone to church.” But such an
invitation is not a “witness,” and, frankly, inviting an unbeliever to
the typical SBC church might just be the absolute worst thing one could
do, for the Gospel of Scripture is likely to have been replaced with
“another Gospel” (Galatians 1:8) that will do them no eternal good (though
it might fill a pew, slosh the baptistry waters, and create another
‘giving unit” for the church’s coffers.  The SBC might make a church
member without the true Gospel, but God alone makes a saint for the
kingdom through the authentic Gospel.)
Still, the guidebook does add, almost blushingly, the suggestion, “Try to share the Gospel with those who are not saved.”

Another way of “taking prayer to the streets,” according to this SBC guidebook is to “Claim your community for Christ.”   “We need to reclaim our streets for God,
it states. What it doesn’t state – and cannot state – is any Biblical
command that substantiates this imperative. Scripture, in no place,
tells the believer to claim anything for Christ or to “reclaim our
streets” for God. This “territory view” is a patently false maneuver
drawn from the errant spiritual warfare teachings of known NAR
charlatans.  (For more on this Biblically errant view of spiritual
warfare, go HERE)

“We need to bind the powers of the evil one over homes – whatever we bind on earth is bound in heaven.”
  The presence of this line alone in an SBC prayer-walking guide is
proof that the SBC, NAMB, the “NAMB Prayer and Spiritual Awakening
office,” the “state convention prayer leaders, nor the “NAMB Intentional
Community Evangelism (ICE) staff” – all of whom were engaged at some
level in editing, revising, or augmenting the prayer-walking guide,
according to its own “Acknowledgements” page  –   none of them care what
Scripture actually teaches. This suggestion is unfounded in Scripture
and, to the extent it cites Scripture, totally obliterates its proper
usage. (For more on the illicit teaching of “binding Satan” see HERE.)

God awaits our prayers to release the spiritual power that enables us to follow through on His plan.”
  Quick, someone please get Kenneth Copeland on the phone because this
Scripturally-noxious line from the SBC guidebook is right at home with
the charlatan-rich word-faith crowd. However, it has no place in
authentic Biblical Christianity.

This intentional prayer releases God’s power and love, as we agree with His plans for an area.” Again, this theological absurdity is rampant in charismatic circles but is absent from the teaching of Holy Scripture.

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The SBC prayer-walking guidebook emphasizes much that might be
popular in undiscerning pews but is decidedly absent from the clear
teaching of Scripture. Part of the reason, no doubt, is that – beyond
the SBC’s dire need to fill emptying pews through selling what goats
will buy – the teaching relied upon to generate the guidebook is itself
illicit. The guidebook sources numerous spiritually dangerous false
teachers. Among those listed in the “Endnotes” are the epic charlatan
and enemy of the sovereignty of God, Charles Finney, the “experience
matters more than Scripture” mystics Henry Blackaby and Claude V. King,
and, finally, author Steve Hawthorne.

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THE SBC ENDORSES NAR-RICH, CHARISMATIC RESOURCE FOR CHURCHES

Hawthorne, with Graham Kendrick, is the co-author of what the SBC
touts as the “definitive book” on prayer-walking. (See “End Notes”
screen grab above)  It is this hearty recommendation of Hawthorne’s
book, Prayer-Walking: Praying On-Site With Insight, in which the SBC is knowingly and willfully aligning the SBC with the apostasy of deceptive NAR-charismatic theology.

Provided below is a baker’s dozen of quotations taken from
Hawthorne’s book, enough to show more than a glimpse of the false
teaching it proffers and which the SBC heartily endorses.

“We define prayer-walking simply as praying on-site with insight.”

(This might sound like common sense, but Scripture does not prescribe
the necessity of believers being in a specific place in order to
apprehend the condition of the lost to be found there. The lost in a
distant foreign land need the same thing as the lost across the street …
the Gospel.  It is the one universal imperative for all men’s souls
because Christ alone is “the way, the truth, and the life.” (John 14:6) Thus, I can pray effectively for its proclamation, and I can do so on my knees beside my desk. Travel not required.)

“The act of walking emboldens prayers
to push through feelings of futility and intimidation.  Entrenched evil
can post spiritual ‘No Trespassing’ signs which seem to enforce the
misery of the status quo.  Prayer walkers gently defy such fraudulent
claims of darkness over their community.”

(Satan is, according to Scripture, the “god of this world.” (2 Corinthians 4:4, 1 John 5:19)
The fact that he controls Main Street or any community on Main Street
is a given verity. But if prayer-walking means taking back territory –
which Hawthorne’s book and the SBC’s guidebook affirm – then the
endeavor is fraught from the start with failure. Only the Gospel light
penetrates the darkness of those whose minds are held in anti-God,
anti-Christ, ideological fortresses. (Colossians 1:12-14, 2 Corinthians 10:3-5)  The battle isn’t over Main Street; it’s over the darkened minds on Main Street and proclaiming the Truth to them.)

“…there is a place for binding
demonic powers so that you can get on with the job.  If we ever pray
specifically against demons, we make sure we have mature Christians in
small groups.”

(Well, in Hawthorne’s book, and according to the SBC, there might be a
place for binding demonic powers – and binding, rebuking, and reviling
the demonic is commonplace in NAR behavior – but according to Scripture,
there is absolutely no place, prescription, or precedent for it.
Believers are to proclaim the power of God – the Gospel – not presume to
take authority over angelic majesties, or “glorious ones,” as Scripture
calls them.  Jude 1:8, 2 Peter 2:10)

“…our task in spiritual war is to
neutralize the ‘tractor beam’ hold these territorial strong men have
over the minds and spirits of people who have welcomed them to dominate
them.”

(Yep, another mishandling the Word of Truth.   There are no mystical
strong men that believers must first thwart in order to neutralize evil.
This swashbuckling, Stars Wars approach to spiritual warfare may be
popular in Bible-barren pews and pulpits, but it completely disregards
what Scripture teaches about authentic spiritual warfare.)

“Take note of one simple proviso
of agreeing in prayer: ‘where two or three have gathered in my name.’ 
Whatever else this gathering may mean, it must have something to do with
physical nearness to each other.  Incidentally, most prayer walking
happens to be done in bands of two or three.”

(The illegitimate use of this verse in SBC-dom is about as prevalent
as fried chicken at church dinners, but it is illegitimate nonetheless.
There is not more power in prayer because “two or three” are gathered
together. Jesus doesn’t suddenly spiritually show up when a crowd
gathers. He hears your solitary prayers.   The cited Scripture of two or
three gathered is given by the Lord in the context, not of prayer, but
of church discipline (Matthew 18:15-20),
a practice that might just be worthwhile to implement for those who
continue in teaching and affirming such a pathetic use of Scripture.)

“Faith exerted in prayer can be
likened to the dynamic of leverage.  Through prayer we lift matters of
concern to God with our faith.  Prayer walking simply provides a
stronger leverage point.”
(This … this is absurd on a logical,
superficial level and, more importantly, on a Biblical one.  To suggest
that praying AND walking provides greater leverage with which to coerce
God is, just on its surface, awfully unfair to Scripturally-obedient,
spiritually mature, praying souls who are unable to walk because of age,
or illness, or handicap, or any number of reasons.  I guess they just don’t get the advantage of the added spiritual leverage this maneuver purports to provide?
 There may be no difference between Jew and Gentile, but according to
this SBC-endorsed book, a walking pray-er has more coercive leverage
over heaven than an immobile one.  This is, yet again, thorough hogwash.
 If you are praying to God, walking or not, and believe that you
exercise any leverage over Him, you neither know God nor Scripture.
 Examine yourself.  (2 Corinthians 13:5)  Here’s a well-known secret – God doesn’t need you.  He doesn’t need your prayers.  He doesn’t act on the basis of your prayers.  He is sovereign and does as He wills. (Psalm 115:3) This teaching of spiritual leverage in prayer-walking is blasphemy against the sovereignty of God. Thanks again, SBC.  Your endorsement reflects much … that isn’t Scriptural.)
“…prayer is as much listening to God as it is speaking to God.”

(In case you are not aware of this, God does not speak to you in
prayer. There is no still small voice. You are not Elijah. And yes, Jesus Calling
is a violation of Holy Scripture in claiming to be the words of Jesus.
Whoever that false teacher/author is hearing from, it ain’t the Lord. As
Justin Peters has said, “If you want to hear God speak, read your
Bible.  If you want to hear Him speak audibly, read it out loud.”  This
Peters procedure is highly recommended especially if you’re a Southern
Baptist; just try to do it, if you can, from behind a pulpit …. where’s
it’s needed most!)

“Prayerwalking is an affair of vision.  Physical sight boosts spiritual vision to sense God’s future for a city.”

(Remember that time Paul and Timothy prayer-walked Ephesus in order to determine God’s “spiritual vision” for the city?   No? 
Me either. This sounds awfully spiritual, but it is nothing more than
unbiblical, spiritualized fodder for the Biblically-illiterate gullible.
You wanna know what God’s “vision” is when it comes to you and your
city or community? Go read the Great Commission …  Matthew 28:16-20)

“Many prayer walks aim to expose,
limit or displace the power of evil forces.  They seek to bring healing
in order to interrupt sinful cycles which feed entrenched evil. 
Malevolent powers are restrained so that good things may come forth.”

(More super-spiritualized, charismatic false teaching here, folks.  
The only mechanism we have at our disposal to displace the power of evil
forces is the Gospel. When the Gospel is shared, God will act on that
strewn seed as He chooses. The power of evil will remain in force until
the Lord returns, but evil’s power over the individual may only be
thwarted by God acting according to His will through His Gospel to save.
The Gospel is the power.  (Romans 1:16)
Your prayer-walking will not “displace the power of evil forces.”  The
Gospel does not need for “malevolent powers” to be restrained.  The
Gospel just needs to be proclaimed.  Did anybody in the SBC bother to read the Bible before endorsing this heresy?)

“Our authority to possess the
cities of earth as an inheritance has roots in our most ancient mandate:
“Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth and subdue it. (Gen 1:28, 9:1,7)”

(The Lord has not commanded us to “possess the cities of the earth as
an inheritance,” and, frankly, you don’t even want this world. If we
know what’s good for us – and Scripture tells us what that is, btw – you want, and I want, the new heaven and the new earth which is yet to come. (Revelation 21:1)
 This current one which Hawthorne and the SBC would have you
prayer-walk to possess “as an inheritance” is facing a certain,
fire-lapped, wrathful judgment. (2 Peter 3:10)
But this teaching smacks of NAR dominionism, a false teaching that
believers must first thwart the Satanic kingdom on earth so that the
kingdom of God might be established.  It is an anti-biblical theology
that damns. For a helpful look at NAR dominionism, go HERE.)

“We can be sure that the Son of God has asked the Father for the earth as an inheritance.”

(Again, smells like dominionism.  Gotta take over everything for
Jesus. Push back the kingdom of Satan so God’s kingdom can be ushered
in.  Ummm, no.  Scripture says, in Colossians 1:16, “For by Him all things were created, both in
the heavens and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or
dominions or rulers or authorities—all things have been created through
Him and for Him.”  Jesus wasn’t just the lucky beneficiary who won
Himself a prize by His sinless life, atoning death, and death-conquering
resurrection.  Jesus IS God.  He IS the Creator.  He IS, as He said, “I
Am.” (John 8:58)
 Everything is already His.  So we don’t need to take over territory,
claim cities, or reclaim streets for Jesus.  We need, simply, to
proclaim the Gospel.  Besides, Jesus, as Judge, has already told us what
He’s going to do with this divinely cursed world. (Genesis 3:17)  It’s rather explicit in 2 Peter 3:10. )

“…it’s our responsibility to go and take the streets back, to reclaim the streets.”

(Umm, no. Wrong. Hit the “that’s not in the Bible” buzzer. This is
not found in Scripture, but it is rife in NAR teaching, and particularly
within its teaching of spiritual mapping.)

“God creates by speaking words. 
When people bless, they align themselves with the creative force of
God’s Word and release measures of God’s promise.”

(Yes, God speaks things into existence. He spoke and creation
appeared. But the suggestion that when I “bless” I’m aligning myself
with God’s “creative force” and thereby I “release measures of God’s
promise,” is patently false. Turn on TBN and you’ll find gobs of
word-faith heretics encouraging you to speak your reality of God’s
blessing. But turn to Scripture and you will not find this teaching
present. This is heresy. But again, according to the SBC, it’s a heresy
that is recommendable.)

C. Peter Wagner

C. Peter Wagner

The SBC’s recommended “definitive book” on prayer-walking is actually
a definitive book of false teaching. In his book, Hawthorne frequently
cites known false teachers, NAR “apostles,” and word-faith charlatans.
In it, you will find quotations from and/or references to such
Biblically-noxious, spiritually dangerous sorts as C. Peter Wagner,
George Otis, Jr., John Dawson, Dick Eastman, and Cindy Jacobs.

LONG BEFORE RONNIE FLOYD’S ALLIANCE WITH APOSTLE MIKE BICKLE AT IHOP – THE SBC’S AFFECTION FOR THE NAR

It’s noteworthy that the recently deceased grand apostle of the NAR
movement, C. Peter Wagner, was well-known and well-lauded by many of the
SBC elite.  Thom Rainer, President of Lifeway, wrote his doctoral
thesis at Southern Baptist Theological Seminar on Wagner.

In his heretical book, Prayer Shield,
Wagner even lauds Rainer’s young son as “my favorite [aged] 1-3
intercessor,” citing correspondence from Rainer in which the then SBC
pastor wrote, “By the way, my youngest son (two-and-a-half-year-old
Jess) has heard your name so much that he concludes all of his prayers
as follows: ‘…and thank you God for Peter Wagner, In Jesus’ Name. Amen.”
 (Prayer Shield, pp. 124-125).

The Book Of Church Growth, 1993

The Book Of Church Growth, 1993

Rainer’s fondness for Wagner would find him, in his 1993 introduction to The Book Of Church Growth
lauding Wagner as one of “two of my mentors.”  “He [Wagner] is the
primary reason,” writes Rainer, “I remain convinced that the best days
of the Church Growth Movement are still ahead. The reader will see Dr.
Wagner’s influence throughout this book.”

As to the possible charge that Wagner’s view of faith moved from what
once might have been deemed orthodox to end up embracing the
full-throated heresy of NAR charismania, a notion proffered by former
SBC insider and Lifeway employee Ed Stetzer in his obituarial praise
of Wagner, at the time Rainer was writing glowing endorsements about
Wagner as his “mentor,” the charlatan had published numerous works with
theologically erroneous positions.

Wagner’s books of heresy already in print at the time Rainer was lauding him included his 1991 Territorial Spirits, 1992’s Warfare PrayerPrayer Shield and How To Have A Healing Ministry.

By 1998, when Rainer’s book was re-released – having dropped Wagner’s
name from the cover, but retaining his gushing endorsement of the
apostle in the preface – Wagner had added further to his works of
heresy.

The Book of Church Growth, reissued, 1998

The Book of Church Growth, reissued, 1998

His books Confronting The Powers (a Biblically illicit view of spiritual warfare, highlighting strategic level spiritual warfare, a/k/a spiritual mapping – see HERE for more on this), Praying Power, and, perhaps most notably, his feature book of the NAR movement itself, The New Apostolic Churches, were all in publication.

That Wagner was spiritually toxic would have been a hard Biblical reality for Rainer and the SBC to have missed.

This certainly begs the question, why would a high-level SBC official
endorse a known false teacher, a man who claimed to be a modern-day
apostle, and one that the apostle Paul anathematizes,  “For such men are false apostles, deceitful workmen, disguising themselves as apostles of Christ.  And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.”  (2 Corinthians 11:13-14)
 The clearest answer is the most obvious …  the SBC simply disregards
the teaching of Scripture.  The endorsement of a charlatan, frankly,
isn’t a surprise for a convention in which the sufficiency of Scripture
is consistently, pragmatically absent. The Convention’s willingness to
endorse teachers that Paul clearly condemns as agents of Satan shows
just how far the SBC, on the whole, has departed from Scripture and the
apostolic gospel contained in it. 

(No wonder, then, that Lifeway stores are replete with the works
of false teachers and heresy hurlers.  No one with doctrinal conviction
is watching the store … and no one is watching those who are tasked to
be watching the store.)

Given the prevalence of charlatans – including Rainer’s “mentor” –
cited in Hawthorne’s “definitive book,” the SBC’s endorsement of it is
not a mere oversight. They didn’t just have a Joel Osteen “oopsie”
moment and mistakenly suggest something they didn’t know was dangerous.
The SBC endorsed it because it does not care what its pew-sitters are
being taught so long as what they’re being taught retains them as
pew-sitters.  Just ask yourself, what is selling better among Scripture-ignorant goats than mystical, contemplative spirituality nonsense?
 Nothing.  Just ask a LifeWay merchandiser.  The SBC is willing to
endorse false teaching found in the heretical New Apostolic Reformation
movement because it might bring crowds back to increasingly
readily-available pews and, therefore, it is unwilling to “contend for
the faith” (Jude 4) because doing so might alienate those prospective pew-sitting goats.

(Considering its million-member loss of the last decade, the SBC
shakers and movers must be covetously eyeing the growth rate of
pentecostalism around the globe.  In 1970 the adherents to
pentecostalism numbered around 63 million, but by 2014, charismania,
most often accompanied by the spiritually toxic prosperity gospel, had
claimed a staggering 631 million globally. Perhaps endorsing charismatic
false teachers is an olive branch extended, inviting them in to an
increasingly doctrine-void, Scripture-less SBC.)

When it comes to walking and praying, there is no Scriptural
prescription for it, nor any Scriptural prohibition against it. In fact,
to take seriously –as we should – the exhortation to “pray without
ceasing,” (1 Thessalonians 5:17)
then walking and praying, or driving and praying, or eating and
praying, or doing anything and praying is not out of order for the
believer. It is the undiscerning approval and insertion of heretical
additives to the concept of “prayer-walking” that makes the SBC’s
endorsement of the practice dangerous and unbiblical.  It is the SBC’s
eager promotion of NAR heresy that most clearly defines the convention’s
posture as slouching towards apostasy.

The relationship of the SBC’s prayer-walking guide with the
NAR-charismatic false teaching of spiritual mapping is evident. Speaking
about this connection pastor and author Jim Osman said, “Prayer walking
is not identical to spiritual mapping, but they do seem to both be
related in that they are both a ‘territory’ approach to advancing some
spiritual cause.”

“I wouldn’t be surprised,” says Osman, “if both practices have a
common heritage, or if prayer walking was somehow adopted from the idea
of mapping by those who might be a little less charismatic.”   Given
what associations the SBC has established in its own prayer-walking
guide, the “common heritage” seems evident, for the SBC’s recommended,
“definitive guide” on the maneuver is drawn specifically from the
spiritual mapping/territory perspective.

“I think the practice [prayer-walking] should be avoided
because it does communicate a territorial approach, the idea that we are
claiming some ground, or advancing some spiritual cause over the area
walked. I think it is too confusing to people … I don’t promote or
advance anything like prayer-walking.”  Jim Osman

J. Gresham Machen was, as in the quote at the start of this article,
giving an unwelcomed but accurate assessment of the woeful condition of
the church in his day.  Today his words ring with even louder clarity,
if not too kind a tone. The “visible church” today – at least the
portion occupied by the behemoth Southern Baptist Convention – isn’t
merely falling “often into error and sin,” it is launching itself
headfirst towards it.

The SBC, while bemoaning its numerical slide in membership, fails to
see this very decline to be the direct result of the other slide which
it refuses to acknowledge – the one away from sound doctrine, Biblical
teaching, and Scriptural obedience.  It is this doctrinal downgrade that
is the impetus of denominational decline.  When Christ in His Word is
not exalted and obeyed, it is not a church of Christ at all. Christ will
build – and is building – His church.  The SBC cannot do it, as is
abundantly evident from both its failing efforts and, more decisively,
the teaching of Scripture.  And millions of prayer-walking Baptists
pleading for an awakening will not do it, either.

The decline in the SBC is directly related to the apostasy embraced,
invited, taught, and endorsed by it.  God does not bless disobedience to
His Word.  The SBC would do well to consider that.  The sufficiency of
Scripture is more than a printed claim on a doctrinal statement; it is
the fundamental tenet upon which authentic, God-given faith is fleshed
out.

Machen, supplementing his comments about the ever-changing world and
the apostasy of the church, directs the reader to the singular place in
which private faith and public denominational obedience must be founded.

“There are many things that change, but there is one
thing that does not change.  It is the Word of the living and true God.
 The world is in decadence, the visible church is to a considerable
extent apostate, but when God speaks we can trust Him, and His Word
stands forever sure.”  J. Gresham Machen

The SBC, today, is actively endorsing NAR, charismaniacal false teaching.  It isn’t just creeping in secretly (2 Peter 2:1);
the SBC is inviting it, printing it up, and subtly serving it as though
it were authentic.  It’s just yet another church growth maneuver to be
relevant to an ever-changing, increasingly depraved culture.  And it’s
evidence that the SBC increasingly is abandoning even the appearance of
holding to, and teaching, sound doctrine. (Titus 2:1)
 In its doctrinal laxness and disregard of Scripture, the SBC is, as
Machen observed of the post-war church in his day, “to a considerable
extent apostate.”  The SBC should repent and return to Scripture.  As
the inspired prophet wrote, that is the only firm thing standing in a
world of constant change:

The grass withers, the flower fades,
    but the word of our God will stand forever.  Isaiah 40:8

Please, whether you walk or not while doing it, please pray for the
SBC.  But instead of praying for the great awakening it wants, please
pray for the awakening it truly needs … the one that drives them solely
to the Word.  Until it finds itself there, its apostasy will continue …
 And, when you can, share the Gospel with them … believe it or don’t,
but I’ve a notion that many SBC pew-sitters haven’t actually heard it …

[Contributed by Bud Ahlheim]

A PostScript Segue on Russell Moore

Here’s my take on the current Moore brouhaha, an uproar that speaks
volumes about the overwhelming lack of concern by Southern Baptists for
Biblical truth. Could the SBC be better served with “no Moore?” Absolutely.
The ERLC is defense exhibit number one that proves the SBC’s disregard
for the sufficiency of Scripture. But, as if exhibiting the light-years
of distance between the SBC and Scripture, while affirming its covetous
desire for worldly alignment, political influence, and cultural
significance, the SBC may actually jettison Moore for the entirely wrong
reason. Moore was correct in his assessment of Trump, but the SBC, for
whom political doctrine carries greater weight than Biblical doctrine,
Moore may be “no more” for his vocal opposition to the now
President-elect.

There is more than slight irony to the fact that, to all the
egregious doctrinally progressive leniencies and ecumenical alliances
incurred at the ERLC under Moore, the SBC has been blind and careless.
But for him to attack the SBC’s and God’s “anointed man for the hour”
has infuriated those in the SBC for whom politics matter more than
faith. Nothing seems clearer about the SBC’s utter disregard for
doctrine than willingly tolerating Moore’s progressive, ecumenical,
social gospel agenda with nearly $4m in annual funding only to then balk
and shout “touch not God’s anointed” when the “anointed” one happens to
be the Republican nominee. Baptists can tolerate a man who insults
Christ calling Him an “illegal alien,” but they can’t trust a man who
bad mouths Trump.  This behavior isn’t mere hypocrisy on the part of the
SBC, it is abject worldliness that bears no resemblance to New
Testament Christianity.

Perhaps this is one of those occasions when a 1st-century entreaty is
divinely applicable: “Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear” (Mark 4:9) because, should the SBC pink-slip Moore for political offensiveness,
it is giving vivid testimony to the world of its supreme allegiance to
that false form of faith known as “American Christianity,” in which
Christ hung from a cross draped in the folds of Old Glory.  The SBC will
be – by merely ejecting Moore to leave the ERLC intact – signaling its
continuing, driving political and social ambitions, rather than
witnessing to its absolute trust in the power of the Gospel and God’s
proclaimed Word.  The SBC doesn’t trust God to effect the change He
wants in America and the world; instead, the SBC will lobby the halls of
American power to achieve the results it desires.  To pink-slip Moore for his commentary about Trump
is to exhibit to the world that “contending for the faith” matters far
less than compliance within the ranks to that impassioned, constant cry
of pagan culture … tolerance.  To pink-slip Moore AND leave
open the ERLC is to effectively paste a “COEXIST” sticker on the bumper
of the SBC bus as it goes careening doctrine-free away from Scripture
and Truth.

Should, however, it shutter completely the doors of the ERLC, repent
for its worldliness, and return to submissive obedience to God’s Word,
THEN the SBC could serve a powerful witness to a dying world in
desperate need of a bold Christian stance for the power of God and the
transforming Truth of the Gospel.  At the moment, though, that witness
is not forthcoming from the SBC.  The SBC decidedly is more concerned,
by its evident behavior, with things below than things above, and to
leave the ERLC intact is to solidify its clench-jawed insistence on
faith in temporal objectives.  God may be sovereign in heaven but,
through the ERLC, the SBC wants to call the shots here, as best it can.
 As it stands now, the SBC is increasingly becoming merely America’s
protestant version of the anti-biblical apostasy found nestled on seven
hills over by the Tiber.

Please pray that conviction and repentance would come to the
convention and that Christ in His Word will be truly exalted above all
other things in the SBC.  Pray that authentic faith in God would be
exhibited by evident trust in the sufficiency of His Word.  Now THAT
would be an awakening.  B.A.

CULT OF HILLSONG CHURCH, AUSTRALIA, ET AL: “SIN FILES” ON MEMBERS & ATTENDEES?

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BY BUD AHLHEIM
republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 
For as high as the heavens are above the earth,
so great is his steadfast love toward those who fear him;
as far as the east is from the west,
so far does he remove our transgressions from us.  Psalm 103:11-12

Relief.  It’s perhaps the first thing that comes to mind
when the Holy Spirit has raised a dead soul to life in the miracle of
regeneration. We are, as a result of no act of our own, forgiven our
sins by an utterly righteous, exceedingly holy, and supremely sovereign
God. When we apprehend the Gospel and the glorious implication of
Christ’s righteousness imputed to us for eternity, though sin will still
taunt and we shall still falter, the relief over the intentional
forgetfulness of God for our now forgiven sin is to apprehend something
of His magnificent grace.

David captured this truth in his “Bless The Lord, O My Soul” Psalm
cited above. The truth is given by the Lord Himself through the prophet
Isaiah, “I, I am he who blots out your transgressions for my own sake,
and I will not remember your sins. (Isaiah 43:25)
King Hezekiah, earlier in the book of Isaiah, acknowledged this truth
of God, “for you have cast all my sins behind your back.” (Isaiah 38:17).
Micah, too, would point the faithful to that time when God “will have
again compassion on us” and would “tread our iniquities underfoot” and
“cast all our sins into the sea.” (Micah 7:19)

But the Biblical truth of God’s eternal forgiveness and forgetfulness
seems not to be a Christian trait honored by the falsely-called
“church” of Hillsong. In fact, where God forgives and forgets, Hillsong
allegedly records and retains.  It apparently keeps a database of sins.

Called the “sin files,” it’s alleged by at least one former insider that Hillsong (the “church” which, under Brian Houston, is known to have covered up the pedophilia of Houston’s father Frank.  See HERE or HERE for more on this.) maintains a database that records private information about members and attendees, particularly youth.  (SOURCE)

According to the insider, “The sin files was a database of
information that we kept on youth group attendees. A youth would confide
in their connect leader, “ says the insider, who “would enter it [the
confidential information, confession, or whatever the leader presumably
found noteworthy] into the system. It was done without their knowledge,
without parental consent.”

Hillsong, for a church, does seem to have a rather extensive “Privacy Policy.” Found on its main website, the Hillsong Privacy Policy “sets out how we will collect, use, store, disclose, and de-identify your personal information.”

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Excerpt, Hillsong Privacy Policy from http://hillsong.com/policies/privacy/

Why does the church need to collect information beyond the basic
contact information or donation records? Why does it need such things as
“idiosyncratic or personal information?” Why is it collecting
information not only from the individual directly but also information
“we collect from others?”

What’s Hillsong do with this information?  Well, according to their
policy, the “church” will use the information it maintains in any way it
sees fit … “in the furtherance of our objects and purposes.” This, of
course, is legally qualified with the caveat “where it is reasonably
required by law.”

According, though, to the insider source, the sin file on a youth (whether a member or merely a Hillsong attendee)
“was sensitive information used to screen people if they wanted to step
into leadership.” Hmm. Was confidential information of a youth’s sin
used, one wonders, to effectively blackmail the youth with leadership
potential in order to keep them within the cult-like confines of
Hillsong authority? Was it to keep them beholden to their Hillsong
confessors?

The insider states one manner, at least, in which the information was
used. He says “…often it was used to isolate and make fun of people.”

Hillsong Pastor Scott "Sanga" Samways

Hillsong Pastor Scott “Sanga” Samways

This “Christian church” practice of “sin files” is alleged to have
begun under the leadership of Hillsong Pastor Scott (Sanga) Samways.
Samways, according to Hillsong.com
is “Newcastle Campus Pastor,” who also “oversees Youth Alive NSW, an
evangelistic ministry focused on reaching the Youth Generation with the
message of Jesus Christ, running large scale events for young people.”
Given what the insider has revealed about Hillsong’s “sin files”
database and the continuing growth of the heretical, prosperity gospel
cult of Hillsong, those “large scale events” must certainly also require
some “large scale” databases.

The Biblical message of Jesus Christ, when it is properly preached
and soundly taught, includes the glorious joy of eternal forgiveness
granted by the pleasure of a God who “will not remember your sins.”
 That a church would intentionally maintain a database of confessed sins
or “idiosyncratic” information on individual members or visiting
attendees to use for any purpose it deems fitting isn’t Christian.
 Rather, it’s decidedly cultic.

There may be great freedom for the soul liberated unto life by divine regeneration (Galatians 5:1),
but for the soul entrenched in the heresy of Hillsong, being freed from
the bondage of sin may only mean being transferred to the enslavement
of Hillsong.  God may forget your sins, but the cult of Hillsong, it
seems, will not.

For more on Hillsong, see HERE.

CALIFORNIA MOVES TO LEGALIZE CHILD PROSTITUTION & PEDOPHILIA

CALIFORNIA MOVES TO LEGALIZE CHILD PROSTITUTION & PEDOPHILIA
CREATING VICTIMS NOT CRIMINALS
CALIFORNIA
DEMOCRATS DECRIMINALIZE UNDER AGE PROSTITUTION

republished below in full unedited for informational, educational, and research purposes:
 By 
        NWV Senior Political News Writer, Jim Kouri
      
Pedophiles
celebrate New Year’s Day with Golden State’s new child prostitution
‘free-for-all’ Law.
The
so-called U.S. Golden State, California, can now add one more progressive
action to its list of legal shenanigans including California’s illegal-alien
sanctuary cities, transgender toilet regulations, and anti-American education
curriculums. Starting on New Year’s Day 2017, minors
both girls and boys will be open for business as legal prostitutes

thanks to Gov. Jerry Brown and the Democrats. The question good folks
are asking ‘why is the church leadership silent?’
Unfortunately,
the news media in general are either ignoring this new law that prohibits
police officers from arresting streetwalkers who are under the age of
18-years-old or they are claiming it doesn’t encourage youngsters
to sell their bodies to adults for sex. But more and more citizens are
wondering how politicians can justify passing such
a heinous law
and still look at themselves in the mirror.
“When
my sergeant told a room full of patrol officers about this new addition
to our state’s penal code, I thought it was a joke. It wasn’t
and many of us cops have teenagers who will now be unprotected by law
enforcement,” said California police officer Joseph McCaffrey. “We
were simply told that beginning on Jan. 1, 2017, prostitution involving
minors will be legal in California, McCaffrey told NewsWithViews.com.
Senate
Bill 1322
forbids law enforcement officers throughout the state from
arresting sex workers who are under the age of 18 for soliciting or engaging
in prostitution, or loitering with the intent to do so.
Senate
Bill No. 1322 Mitchell. Commercial sex acts: minors.
Existing
law makes it a crime to solicit or engage in any act of prostitution.
Existing law makes it a crime to loiter in any public place with the
intent to commit prostitution.
This
bill would make the above provisions inapplicable to a child under 18
years of age who is alleged to have engaged in conduct that would, if
committed by an adult, violate the above provisions. The bill would
authorize the minor to be taken into temporary custody under limited
circumstances.
This
bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 647 of the Penal
Code, proposed by SB 420, SB 1129, and AB 1708, that would become operative
only if this bill and one or more of those other bills are enacted and
become effective on or before January 1, 2017, and this bill is chaptered
last.
This
bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 653.22 of the Penal
Code, proposed by AB 1771 that would become operative only if this bill
and AB 1771 are enacted and become effective on or before January 1,
2017, and this bill is chaptered last.
Now
girls and boys in California will be free to trade sex for cash without
having to worry about being arrested and prosecuted. Also, there is no
longer a fear of having a criminal record since prostitution of children
is no longer considered a crime in the Golden State.
Progressives’
Sexual Free-For-All?
This
shocking
legislation
was written, proposed, sponsored and passed by progressive
Democratic lawmakers who are in total control California’s state government
with a two-thirds “super majority.” In addition, the executive
branch of California’s political cesspool is none other than the
man known to his detractors as “the space cadet,” Gov. Jerry
Brown.
They
have rationalized this latest legal outrage as decriminalizing underage
prostitution to bring about fair public policy that will help victims
of sex trafficking.
According
to a video
in the Examiner
, “[T]he reality is that the legalization of
underage prostitution suffers from the fatal defect endemic to progressive-left
policy making: it ignores experience, common sense and most of all human
nature — especially its darker side.”
California’s
Democrats claim the law will not stop police officer from arresting pimps
and human smugglers. Pimping will still be considered a crime whether
it involves adult women or young girls. But legalizing child prostitution
will only helping increased sex-ploitation 2of underage girls. Immunity
from arrest means law enforcement can’t interfere with minors engaging
in prostitution — which translates into bigger and better cash flow
for the pimps. Simply put, more time on the street and less time in jail
means more money for pimps, and more victims for them to exploit.
Even
worse, the news media such as NBC News defends the Democrats for passing
this perversion, according to Mike Baker, a former attorney and political
strategist. “The backers of this Godless law deny that children
will be hurt and say if they [the children] are arrested a stint in juvenile
detention will again victimize them.”
“The
law is supposed to protect vulnerable children from adult abuse, yet we
brand kids enmeshed in sex-for-pay with a scarlet ‘P’ and leave them subject
to shame and prosecution,” said
an NBC news story
.
Baker
claims the news media play word games and if Americans just read the new
law as written “they will see how evil this whole scenario is.”

Nancy O’Malley, an attorney and national leader on child sex-trafficking
issues, said in a statement, “It just opens up the door for traffickers
to use these kids to commit crimes and exploit them even worse.”
If pimps and human smugglers should be given free rein to write a law
helpful to themselves, SB 1322 would be it, according to the criminal
prosecutor.
Unfortunately
for Californians, SB 1322 isn’t the end of the liberal-left assault on
decency. It’s only the latest in a long line of socially destructive
legislation. 2017 will see the Golden State subjected to one after another
of laws taking effect that are passed by politicians ignorant of human
behavior and studies by criminologists. Ivory tower dwellers are preferred
by the Democrats over those who bring practical experience in sex crimes
investigation but disastrous embodiments of neo-liberalism.
California’s
undeterred Democrats have also taken action to make their state’s
youth unemployment rate — one of the nation’s highest — even
worse by boosting the minimum wage.
 Any
economist worth his or her salt knows that minimum-wage hikes increase
unemployment among young people who are the least skilled and most in
need of entry-level jobs. Like so many other liberal policies, this latest
minimum-wage legislation will only lead to fewer jobs for our youth.
When
a progressive politician begins trying sell a new policy or law, one is
best served by reviewing the costs and damage caused by the pride of the
Obama administration – the Affordable Care Act of 2010.
And
the list goes on. Thanks to other new Democratic-sponsored bills, an estimated
50,000 felons will be voting in the next state election, many from their
jail cells; if you go hunting with a buddy and lend him your shotgun,
you’ll be breaking the law; state employees will be forbidden from traveling
on business to states which prohibit transgender bathrooms. The parade
of inane and idiotic legislation in California is virtually unending.